Dominic Basulto

Biography

Dominic Basulto is the U.S. editor of Russia Direct. He has extensive experience in digital media including a regular blog with The Washington Post and a daily blog on Winter Olympics host city Sochi. In addition to publishing the first-ever iPad travel guide to Sochi, Dominic has lived in the House of Writers in Moscow, taught finance at Moscow's first MBA program, published a weekly column for a Russian newspaper and completed a certificate program in Russian language from Moscow State University. He has an undergraduate degree in Politics and Russian Studies from Princeton and an MBA in emerging markets from Yale.

The latest soft power rankings are not so much about Russia’s exit from the world stage – they are more about the West’s inability to grasp the changing contours of modern international relations (part 2 of 3)

RD Interview: James Carden, author of a new Nation article describing the bias in the mainstream media against Russian experts who refuse to accept the default hardline response to Moscow, explains why a greater diversity of voices is needed on Russia

Russia Direct is pleased to introduce our readers to Peter Marzalik, the winner of our fourth Student Essay Competition. Find out what he thinks could put the U.S. and Russia on a path to greater international cooperation

At Russia Forum New York 2015, business leaders weighed in on the ineffectiveness of sanctions against Russia, suggesting that they threatened to hurt the small businesses that are at the core of any future US-Russian relationship

The most popular RD articles of the year covered the major trends in Russia’s relationship with the West, including the Ukraine crisis, Russia’s pivot to China, fears of a new Cold War, the collapse of the ruble and plunging oil prices worldwide

The more Russia is viewed as the “global villain” the more pressure the West will face to ratchet up its policy responses to perceived Russian aggression. At what point, though, will both sides run out of any good options?

If the Scots vote for independence from the United Kingdom on Sept. 18, that could have interesting implications for the way we think about the separatists in Eastern Ukraine and the complex historical relationship between Russia and Ukraine

Political science professor Nicolai Petro explains why Ukrainian national identity plays such a decisive role in today’s conflict. The fundamental issue at stake is whether Ukraine should be a monocultural or a bicultural nation

A new BCG report analyzing Russia’s most innovative companies suggests that being able to react quickly to changing economic conditions and being able to attract the best and brightest talent are two of the most valuable traits of innovators in emerging markets

There are at least 8 different storylines about the Malaysian plane crash that are either unproven – or, at worst, downright untrue. All of them have the capability to change the narrative of events and set the stage for what happens next in Ukraine